Article posted on the Adoption History Project site about federal efforts to place American Indian children in non-Indian homes.

January 2007 paper written by Mary Eschelbach Hansen and Daniel Pollack of American University that concludes that Black children spend more time as legal orphans than children of other races and that transracial placement speeds their adoptions.

Khalilah Brown-Dean is assistant professor of political science and African-American studies at Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

Marla Frederick is a leading ethnographer and scholar focused on the African American religious experience. She is dean of Harvard Divinity School, Boston. Her expertise includes the African-American religious experience. She is the author or co-author of four books, including Colored Television: American Religion Gone Global and Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of […]

Alton B. Pollard III directs the Program of Black Church Studies at Emory University, Atlanta, where he is an associate professor of religion and culture. He co-edited How Long This Road: Race, Religion and the Legacy of C. Eric Lincoln (Palgrave MacMillan, 2003).

Chris Rice co-directs the Center for Reconciliation at Duke University. He wrote Grace Matters: A True Story of Race, Friendship and Faith in the Heart of the South (Jossey-Bass, 2002) and co-authored More Than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel (InterVarsity Press, 1993).

Eric McDaniel is associate professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. He researches religion and politics, including Black religious organizations’ political involvement and what effect they have on Black political activity.

Eric L. Goldstein is an associate professor of history and of Jewish studies at Emory University, Atlanta, and edits the quarterly journal American Jewish History. He wrote The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race and American Identity (Princeton University Press, 2006).

Gerardo Martí is a sociology professor at Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina. He teaches about race and ethnic relations and is the author of A Mosaic of Believers: Diversity and Innovation in a Multiethnic Church. Martí is researching whether worship music matters for making congregations racially and ethnically diverse.